"Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers."
― Peter Davison
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Poetry
More From Peter Davison
- "But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."
- "I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."
- "They need to learn poetry. They don’t need to learn about poetry. They don’t need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don’t need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it."
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- "The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money."― Tom Hooper
- "Dancing is the poetry of the foot."― John Dryden
- "Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."― Allen Ginsberg